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Anne Carter and Walter R. Robins, Jr. Foundation Friends of Hollywood Cemetery Receives $150,000 Grant n April 30, Friends of Hollywood received grandparents), and three unmarried sisters of Mrs. Robins notification from the Anne Carter Robins and in the Carter plot at Hollywood. WalterO R. Robins, Jr. Foundation (the “Foundation”) of the largest grant award – $150,000 – in Friends’ five Rita M. Smith, a longtime Robins’ family friend, serves year history. The grant will enable Friends to complete as a Foundation Trustee and Treasurer. She fondly restoration and installation of the Palmer Fence and to re- remembers each member of the family. “They were landscape and beautify the Glade. good to individuals and organizations,” she nostalgically recalls. “Once The Foundation was established in 1995 in memory they got to of Walter R. Robins, Jr. and in honor of Anne Carter know you, they Robins by their daughters, Anne Carter Mallory and M. considered Bruce Robins. Mr. you part of the Robins died in 1989 family. Being after a successful with them was career as a real estate always a joy for investor; Mrs. Robins me.” died in 2002. The Foundation’s first In November, Newly fabricated corner section grant of $1,000 2013, the of the Palmer Fence. was made in 1995. Foundation was awarded the prestigious “Foundation of Since its beginning the Year Award” at National Philanthropy Day’s annual and as a result of award luncheon in Richmond. “I wish that the Robins prudent investing, family could have been there for that very special honor,” the Foundation has Smith remarked. The Foundation was nominated for the awarded a total of award by the VCU’s Massey Cancer Center, a longtime Workers placing a curved granite $5,121,350 to one recipient of the Foundation’s philanthropy. For years, foundation for the Palmer Fence. hundred or more contributions to the Center have been earmarked for individual non-profits in Richmond and throughout clinical trials. Virginia. Both daughters are deceased and are buried (continued on page 2) with their parents, Mrs. Robins’s parents (their

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Historic Repairing Bishop Hayes- Angel Talley Marker Fences C.M. Davis of New Dedicated Williams Hope Website Forty middle and high school students visit Hollywood, dressed in matching jackets emblazoned with the crest of the Rikkyo School (Japan). “We can share our stories of (continued from page 1) Grant our children. It’s a nice open Talley Joins Friends Board The Foundation Trustees are sensitive to awarding grants sections cast. Today, the fence, almost three hundred feet atmosphere …Everyone there has to organizations and for causes that might have special in length, awaits installation. been through it,” he says. Friends of Hollywood is pleased to announce the election of Elizabeth Wilkins Talley to its Board of Directors. meaning to the Robins family. From animal welfare and the elimination of cancer, the list includes the The Glade is located to the right of the earthen bridge Families visit the statue year round, often leaving stuffed animals and Liz is a native of Winchester, Virginia. She is a graduate of the environment, arts and culture, special needs education, roadway as one enters the cemetery. Historically referred Madeira School and Sweetbriar College where she earned a outreach to the handicapped or disadvantaged, and to as “short bottom,” it was one of the Cemetery’s very other mementos. One local couple Bachelor’s degree in Economics in 1988. From 1989 to 1993, she conservation and preservation. special water features. Along with “long bottom” on the visits the site regularly because it worked in the Trusts and Estates Department of Sotheby’s, Inc. in New York City. left, it was drained in the mid 1900’s when maintenance offers her a convenient location to During her tenure in New York, she also completed a graduate certificate program at “When Rita Smith last visited Hollywood, there was much and insects became an issue. Friends have engaged remember their son, who is buried in the Parsons School of Design with a concentration in the History of Decorative Arts. to share with her,” Kelly Wilbanks, Friends Executive a Virginia landscape architect to provide plans to re- West Virginia. Often, people will ask Director, recalls. “She seemed particularly fascinated landscape and beautify the Glade. In addition to serving Johnson if they can visit the statue— Liz brings to Friends a keen interest in and enthusiasm for Hollywood conservation with Presidents Circle and the re-design that has occured as prominent entrance feature for the cemetery, the Glade even if their children were already and restoration as well as community outreach activities. She serves currently as will become a scattering garden for cremated remains. grown up when they passed away. President of the James River Garden Club where she has demonstrated her passion for gardening and horticulture. Past board service includes the Museum of the “A child is a child,” he says. “The Confederacy (now, the American Civil War Museum), the Sheltering Arms Hospital Friends of Hollywood wishes to express its deepest Junior Board (Past President), Historic Richmond Foundation, the William Byrd appreciation to Rita Smith and other Foundation Trustees memorial is there for anyone who has lost a child, regardless of age.” Branch of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities and Belle Grove for their special interest in Hollywood Cemetery, for Plantation. their spectacular philanthropy over many years, and for their generous support of Friends of Hollywood. The The Children’s Remembrance Liz is married to William St. Clair Talley, a Richmond architect. The Talley’s have Foundation’s generosity will allow the organization Candlelight Ceremony will be two sons. to continue meaningful efforts to preserve one of held at the Angel of Hope statue Richmond’s most outstanding landmarks. on December 6th at 6 p.m. It is We welcome Liz to the Board of Friends where she will most certainly make a free and open to the public. tremendous contribution. Introducing our new Website

Unloading one of numerous sections of the restored Palmer Fence. Friends of Hollywood Cemetery would like to thank Some features of the website include: • Informative biographies of the 49 there.” Work has been all but completed – the one notables at Hollywood Cemetery outstanding item being the Palmer Fence. The original Dominion and the Dominion Foundation • In-depth timeline of the history of the rinceau style fence dates to the 19th century and the early cemetery For the $25,000 grant to support environmental • Things to do and see during your visit preservation efforts with a James River observation • A list of available tour options point at Palmer Chapel. This is the first Environmental • Upcoming events hosted by Hollywood Cemetery Stewardship grant Friends has received. • A downloadable cemetery map • Information on available burial Friends of Hollywood was one of thirty-three options organizations that received $500,000 in grants • A genealogy platform where users supporting environmental stewardship initiatives can search the burial records of any across Virginia. These initiatives include programs one buried in the cemetery that “protect and preserve natural habitats and open • Information on how you can support Hollywood Cemetery spaces, prevent pollution, make nature accessible, • Links to Hollywood Cemetery’s and educate the public about environmental social media The “Glade” as it currently appears. stewardship.” Friends is grateful for our It was one of Hollywood’s original ponds. partnership with Dominion. Also, coming soon: days of the Cemetery. “It is perhaps the most beautiful • An interactive virtual tour piece of cast iron in the Cemetery, if not in Richmond,” • Mobile-friendly online mapping comments Wilbanks. From a few remaining fragments, platform restoration was undertaken, molds were made, and

FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 2 FALL 2014 FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 11 FALL 2014 Remembering Our Children Irish American Society Commemorates Mary Ryan Special Ceremony Held Each Year At Angel Statue and Other Victims of Brown’s Island Explosion n the Idlewood section of Hollywood Cemetery, a large happened across this thing called the ‘Angel of Hope.’ It Ibronze angel statue of a child stands atop a pedestal. piqued my interest.” n March 29, members of the Irish American Society ignited the materials in the room and led to a second and larger The angel is looking heavenward as she reaches toward Oof Greater Richmond dedicated a historic marker explosion. the viewer with her palms gently turned up. Her hair, He learned that many communities across the country remembering the victims of a tragic explosion that took gown and feathered wings flow in the wind. Carefully had erected identical bronze angels in their cemeteries to place on March 13, 1863 during the Civil War on Brown’s At the ceremony, the Society unveiled the marker, engraved etched under one wing is the word, “Hope.” For years, memorialize lost children and create a place for collective Island. Fifty people lost their lives in the accident at the with a Celtic cross and the message: “In Memory of Mary the statue has brought just that to the families who gather healing. The memorials—also known as “Christmas Box” Confederate munitions factory, including many young Irish Ryan and the 14 other victims of the March 13, 1863 explosion there each December for a special ceremony. It all started angel statues--were inspired by the best-selling novel of that girls who worked there. The delicate and dangerous work on Brown’s Island, who are laid to rest here in Hollywood with the efforts of a grieving father. same name by Utah writer Richard Paul Evans. In the book, often required small hands. Cemetery.” The names and ages of the victims—the youngest a woman mourns her child at the foot of an angel monument. just ten-years-old—are engraved on the marker. Evans was inspired by an actual statue that is believed to have perished in a flood. A lot of people started calling the About six or seven victims are believed to be buried at the author, asking about the statue. “They had this connection location of the monument, says Karon Bell, a board member [to it],” says Johnson. of the Irish American Society who helped raise funds for the project. Many of the victims of the tragedy lay in unmarked Evans commissioned a new angel statue, modeled after the graves in cemeteries throughout the city. “You had a lot of very one described in his book. A dedication ceremony took place poor people at the time; some of them may have been buried in at the Salt Lake City Cemetery on December 6th, 1994. friends of family plots,” she says. Evans allowed replicas of the 4’3” tall statue to be made available to others, at no profit.

The more Johnson read about the angel statues, the more he felt compelled to bring one to Richmond. “It was something I had to do—both for myself, to give my mind something to work on at the time, and also for the community.” (His wife, Angela, meanwhile, began devoting her time to child advocacy issues.)

He spent the next two years raising funds for the bronze statue, which cost $12,500. For the base, he turned to The Irish American banner was prominent at the Ceremony. longtime Hollywood stonecutters A. P. Grappone & Sons, who had created the foundation for Reagan’s monument. Mary Ryan, 17, is widely blamed for causing the explosion. At Tony and Albert [now deceased] Grappone surprised him by the time, she was filling primers—the devices used to ignite donating the granite base free of charge. (It is engraved with gunpowder inside cannons. According to some reports, her A young woman depicts Mary Ryan at age seventeen. “Angel of Hope” and a short message: “Our Children / No attempt to dislodge a jammed primer caused a blast, which then longer in our sight / Forever in our hearts.”) At the ceremony, Kelly Kennedy led the crowd in singing the Irish and U.S. national anthems, Lainey Riddell and Eddy Then, Hollywood Cemetery General Manager David Gilliam O’Malley (from County Galway, Ireland) helped set the scene offered Johnson, gratis, a large triangular plot located near in period costume, and historian Mike Gorman provided an “Our Children Reagan’s grave. “I was just dumbfounded,” he says. “I No Longer in Our Sight account of the tragic afternoon. Father James Begley offered a couldn’t believe it.” The dedication for the statue took Forever in Our Hearts” blessing and then red and white roses were laid for each of the place at Hollywood Cemetery on May 13, 2006. Later that Ty Johnson’s daughter died ten years ago. His voice is year, Johnson organized his first Children’s Remembrance victims. The event ended with a bagpiper performing “Amazing still overcome with emotion as he remembers her. “My Candlelight Ceremony at the angel statue on December 6th. Grace” as he slowly walked away from the gravesite. second child, Reagan, was born July 16, 2003. On March The annual event is held on the same date as similar services 6, 2004, she was shaken by a babysitter and passed away,” around the country. Bell is pleased that the victims, over 150 years later, now have says Johnson. The babysitter later pleaded guilty to several a proper marker. “I think it was a very horrible tragedy that charges and was sentenced to prison. Johnson speaks at the brief ceremony and then, “at the end, happened to these young immigrant girls and we needed some we give the opportunity for anyone who wants to come way to remember this and honor them for giving their lives to In the days following Reagan’s death, he says, he began forward and say the name of a child, and lay a white flower the war,” she says. “It’s something worth remembering.” to search the internet for a fitting memorial. He selected a at the base of the angel.” Afterwards, the families gather for Red and white roses were placed by the marker honoring each of the large, white marble angel and had it placed on her grave coffee and cookies. fifteen victims buried at Hollywood. in Hollywood Cemetery. During his search, though, “I (continued on page 11)

FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 10 FALL 2014 FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 3 FALL 2014 Restoring History Q: Tell me about your need to tell Jefferson Davis’ story. What do you think hasn’t been told in the past? Dedicated Craftsman Chris Beauchamp Repairs BHD: We speak a lot about the one line in history book: Hollywood’s Ornate Iron Work “Jefferson Davis is appointed President of the Confederate States of America.” (When the couple speaks to groups, he hen Chris Beauchamp arrived in 2007, Hollywood the older sections, where some of the fencing is over says, they also point out that Davis was also a senator and WCemetery was still trying to dig out from the damage 150 years old. In the cemetery’s early days, each family congressman) He was the Secretary of War and without his of Hurricane Isabel. plot came with a wrought or cast iron fence surrounding leadership we wouldn’t have the Capitol building today. it. A significant amount of fencing was donated in iron We talk about the transcontinental railroad and the Gadsden “A lot of the fencing was dilapidated and falling down or bent collections during the Civil War and World War I. Purchase. We talk about his service in the Army, the War by tree limbs,” he recalls. Additionally, due to wear and tear of 1847, and the Black Hawk War. And then we talk about over the years, much of the fencing was buried in the ground or He has worked on countless individual plots as well afterwards, his imprisonment, and being a man without a missing sections. as larger efforts, such as Presidents Circle, and various country and losing four out of six kids. connected plots in section M, one of the older, “alphabet” sections. The section includes a large monument to Dr. CHD: He became the martyr of the war. Lee got away, all R.W. “John” Dove, who served as the Grand Secretary of these others got away, but he became the symbol. … The the Grand Lodge of Virginia for over 30 years. main thing is we are trying to get across is to educate people about what Jefferson Davis did for this country. The job “involved a good 300 yards of fencing, and there was a lot of it missing,” he says. The posts in the section BHD: His 52 years of being a patriot have been eliminated. feature an ornate, winding rose design and a cannonball People believe he was always just that one person … So, finial with a fleur-de-lis design atop. Since there were not history has gotten lost. And we think Jefferson Davis is as enough of the original finials, he reserved those for the important a historic figure as anyone else you want to name. gateways and topped the remaining posts with cannonball finials. When he has to create a new post or finial, he uses Q: What are your feelings about Hollywood Cemetery? Though his funeral and burial took place in New Orleans, Jefferson cast iron. What are your impressions about it? Chris Beauchamp (middle) with two members of his Art-a-Metal crew. Davis was reinterred in Hollywood Cemetery at his widow’s request Fortunately, Beauchamp (pronounced Beech-am) enjoys “Whatever we put back, we’re trying to stay as close to in 1893. The life-size bronze statue of him erected in the family plot BHD: It’s an amazing monument to history. We’re a very on Davis Circle was selected from three designs. “There was a big a challenge. After learning welding while serving in the original as possible. Sometimes we get lucky and we’ll small part of the history that’s here. battle about the hat,” says Bertram Hayes-Davis standing next to his the U.S. Coast Guard, and apprenticing with a Newport find some here and there. And when we get that chance, wife, Carol. “I think there’s only one picture of him with a hat on.” News Shipbuilding contractor, he created railings, spiral we’ll try to buy them up. If we can’t do that … we’ll go CHD: On the way in, we were talking about how hard it staircases, and other ornamental designs for Associated out and have a mold made and have that particular cast must be for some of these cemeteries to carry on ... But Steel Products in Charlottesville. He opened his own shop, iron piece recast,” he says. Finial molds cost $1,600, he this place has so much historical significance. And it is Art-a-Metal, in the Eastern Shore’s Accomack County in says. absolutely gorgeous. You’ve got the river and you’ve got HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY 1997. His background prepared him for the intricate work so many things that make it a special place. … Every time needed for the antique posts and finials at Hollywood, Hollywood Cemetery Grounds Foreman, Donald Toney, we come here there is always someone in Davis Circle. during hollywood’s long history, the cemetery where he and his crew put in about 40 man hours a week, also helps Beauchamp scout for missing pieces. “Chris Many times, when the weather is beautiful, they’re painting. has relied largely on “word of mouth” from its when the weather cooperates. believes in what he’s doing, he loves it, and when you find They’ve got their easels out there. lot owners for the sale of lots. in recent years, someone like that, you’re very fortunate,” Toney says. the cemetery has developed projects designed “Chris does a very thorough job in dealing with the BHD: And this place is not mournful. It’s historic. It’s a to increase the inventory of lots, crypts, and restoration of the iron work at Hollywood Cemetery. It The other members of the Art-a-Metal team are Larry learning experience. niches available for sale. please continue the is very tedious work at times and sometimes involves Gibson from Charlottesville, Greg Giles from Madison “word of mouth” tradition with your family and re-grading the landscape or removing vegetation to County, and Marvin Bundick from the Eastern Shore. friends. accomplish this work. It is difficult to find craftsmen In December, the Hayes-Davises will be leading a historic shown by appointment who can do the restoration work on wrought and cast With larger projects, Beauchamp will break down the steamboat trip down the Mississippi River that chronicles 648-8501 iron,” says David Gilliam, Hollywood Cemetery General fencing into its various sections and bring it back to the the life of Jefferson Davis. Proceeds from the trip will www.hollywoodcemetery.org Manager. shop to repair. Because of the weight of antique iron, he benefit the Beauvoir Foundation. For information on this likes to weld the pieces on-site when possible. trip and others, please visit BeauvoirFoundation.org Beauchamp’s projects have included countless repairs (continued on page 5) throughout the cemetery, with many of the projects in

FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 4 FALL 2014 FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 9 SPRINGFALL 20142011 Carol and Bertram Hayes-Davis Before What’s in a Name? Often isolated in his task, Beauchamp has never seen a ghost in Hollywood Cemetery, but he has An Interview with the Hayes-Davis Family gotten a good scare. n November 7, Bertram Hayes-Davis, a great-great Q: And he was how old? “I had my welding shield on and was working Ograndson of Jefferson Davis visited Hollywood on a gate. You can’t hear anything and the only Cemetery with his wife, Carol. The pair had traveled to BHD: Six. thing you can see is the arc from the light. All of a Richmond from their home in Biloxi, Mississippi for a sudden, someone grabbed me on the shoulder and United Daughters of the Confederacy speaking engagement. CHD: So they ask a six-year-old, “Would you change your said, ‘hello,’” he says, with a laugh. name?” Of course he says, “Sure.” In Biloxi, they have been active in preservation efforts for The visitor turned out to be a friendly member of Beauvoir, the Confederate President’s historic home and BHD: So they go to the state legislature, and the state of the cemetery’s grounds committee. presidential library, which they hope one day will be viewed Mississippi changes his name from Jefferson Addison Hayes to as a “Monticello of the South.” Hayes-Davis, president of Jefferson Hayes-Davis. And that was on his birth certificate. A history buff, Beauchamp is very knowledgeable Section D, Lot #159 the Beauvoir Foundation, also served as executive director of about the prominent individuals buried in the After the home until his resignation last March; Mrs. Hayes-Davis The other half of the story is that in 1976, we have a cemetery. “There’s an old gentleman over here previously handled programs and events for the stately manor. Jefferson Davis family reunion and I’m standing in the glade whose plantation was across the creek where Since 1976, he has also served as president of the Davis Family at Rosemont (Plantation in Mississippi; a former home of I grew up--Henry Wise. The only governor of Association, which has about 1,700 members. The non- Jefferson Davis where the family meets every two years), and Virginia that I know of from the Eastern Shore,” he profit organizes the annual family reunion and also sponsors we’ve decided to create a Davis family association and make says. scholarships, research and grants, historic trips and speakers. it a non-profit. Of course to do that, you have to have a board of officers. (They go through the slate) and we get to president. Every January 1st, he takes an inventory of the At Hollywood, the couple visited the family plot in Davis And I’m standing next to my cousin, and his father is across the fencing in the cemetery, checking past work and Circle, where Jefferson Davis is buried along with his wife, glade looking at us, and he said, “There is only one person who making plans for the future. Varina, and his daughters, Winnie and Margaret, and other should be president of the Davis family association.” And he family members. Afterwards, the Hayes-Davises stopped points, and I’m thinking he’s pointing at his son. And he says, “In my lifetime, I’d prefer not to see the cemetery by Hollywood Cemetery offices, where they talked about “Bertram Hayes-Davis.” get back into the shape it was when I first started,” Beauvoir, interesting family traditions, and the unusual story he says, “because there’s too much history there to behind their last name. Of all the Jefferson Davis descendants, And so I’m remembering my great-grandfather in the room lose.” Hayes-Davis is the only one, other than his children, who that day recalling what changed his life, and at that moment carries the last name “Davis.” His great-grandmother Margaret, what changed my life. Because I became the person who had who married a Hayes, was the only child of Jefferson and no idea who Jefferson Davis was, other than he was president Before After Varina Davis to bear children. of the Confederate States of America, making me want to be as knowledgeable about that as I could. You look at the way Q: Tell me about how your great-grandmother Margaret God acts in your life and here are these two instances and they carried on the Davis name. directly parallel.

BHD: Davis dies in New Orleans in December 1889 and the Q: Can you tell me about any interesting family traditions? entire Hayes family comes down to New Orleans on a train. He’s lying in state and Varina Davis is in a hotel across the CHD: At the reunions, they have the oldest and the youngest street. So Margaret Hayes (and her children), Lucinda Hayes, cut a cake. And they use Jefferson Davis’s sword to cut the William Davis Hayes, Jefferson Addison Hayes and Varina cake. They take it out of the case to cut the cake. Hayes are also in that room. Winnie is in England. And Varina Davis walks up and points across the way and says, “There lies BHD: Someday that’s going to be me--I’m going to be the the last Davis. Isn’t it a shame we can’t do something about it?” oldest one there. 100 years old and I’m going to cut that cake. So in that room, one of my relatives, probably Varina (Davis), I’ve never gotten to do that. said, “We need to change his name” pointing at my grandfather. (continued on page 9) So, here’s my grandfather, Jefferson Addison Hayes and they ask him if he would change his name. Section R, Lot #185

FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 8 FALL 2014 FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 5 FALL 2014 “Teach the way, not the self...” China and Japan. He briefly returned also taught Bible studies and English a final time. He settled in the home to the U.S., where his consecration classes. He resided in one of the of a niece who lived in Richmond. took place in St. John’s Chapel in rooms of the school, and lived a He lived there for two years before Japanese Students, Dignitaries Honor Educator and New York on October 3, 1866. simple and modest life. According passing away on December 1, 1910. to Kaneko, he wore a threadbare suit According to Kaneko, “it is reported Missionary Bishop C.M. Williams in Special Service He then moved to Woochong, China, that had been turned inside out and that before he died he was mumbling curious scene took place at generations of young Japanese At the request of the American to tend to his congregation there “but always traveled third class, “because, in Japanese to the perplexed nurses.” the grave site of Bishop C.M. students. Episcopal Church, the two men set he could not forget the country he he said, there was no fourth.” He AWilliams on the morning of March up a mission station in Nagasaki in had left behind,” writes Kaneko. “Seeds now a Tree” 27th. A chartered bus pulled up and Channing Moore Williams was July 1859, and in so doing, became He returned to Japan, this time a lively crowd of about 40 middle born in Richmond on July 18, 1829. the first Protestant missionaries in settling in Osaka. “Some of the seeds he and high school aged boys and their His father, a farmer, died when Japan. At the time, Christians were (Bishop Williams) planted chaperones emerged. They brought Williams was young. His widowed associated with black magic, and His timing proved fortuitous. In have been growing and now out instruments of all sizes and set mother worked tirelessly to support missionary activities were prohibited 1873, the Japanese government it is a big tree,” said Jun up chairs to face the Bishop’s grave. her children. Little is known of his in the country. Williams wrote ordered the removal of public Itoigawa, Chairman of the The boys, who were members of childhood, but at age 20, he began about the difficult environment to notice boards that displayed an Board of Directors of the their school’s wind orchestra, were studying at the College of William the Mission Board in 1861. “There Edict Against Christianity, that Rikkyo School, speaking and Mary, graduating in 1853. He is no immediate prospect of being had been in place for over 200 at the memorial service in then attended Virginia Theological permitted to engage in active years. Richmond. Seminary in Alexandria, from which missionary duties. Our wisdom he graduated in 1855. He served as is to sit still for the present,” he A School Established (1874) Today, the Rikkyo School a deacon in Alexandria’s St. Paul’s says in the letter. Nonetheless, in (also known as St. Paul’s) In the more tolerant environment, Forty middle and high school age boys – all members of includes the Rikkyo primary, Church. 1862, he directed the building of Rikkyo School’s Wind Orchestra perform at the ceremony. a small church in Nagasaki—the he moved the mission’s middle and high schools as To China and A New Life (1855) first Protestant church in Japan-- headquarters from Osaka to the well as Rikkyo University, which offered services for foreign new capital, Toyko (formerly Yedo) quickly and quietly gave money to one of the most prominent private Later that year, his life took a residents. in 1873. He then established, in beggars in the street, so as to not liberal arts and research institutions dramatic turn. In February 1874, a small, private attract attention to himself. “Teach in Japan, which serves over 20,000 November 1855, under school in Tsukiji, Tokyo where the way, not the self,” became a undergraduate and graduate students. the direction of Bishop English classes and Bible studies phrase that many connected to him. The schools and the university have William Boone, the first were taught. This institution, which campuses in both Ikebukuro and Anglican missionary eventually became known as the Under his guidance, the American Niiza. Young Bishop Williams. It is said to be the bishop of Shanghai, Rikkyo School, began with five mission in Japan expanded its only photograph taken while he was in Japan. he sailed from New students. He later expanded the brick and mortar efforts, including Since their beginning 140 years dressed neatly, in matching jackets York with the Rev. campus to include a university a number of schools as well as a ago, the schools have remained emblazoned with the crest of the John Liggins, bound (1883) and junior high (1896). medical dispensary (1885) that committed to the Christian values Rikkyo School in Japan. Bishop for missionary work grew into St. Luke’s International of Bishop Williams—although, of Williams, a Richmond native, had in China. “A perilous, Hospital. In 1887, the course, the students come from a started the school over 140 years ago seven months’ voyage, Nippon Selkokai (the variety of religious backgrounds. and they were preparing to honor broken only at Rio de Episcopal Church in His statue resides in a side garden him with a special service. They’d Janeiro and Sydney, Japan) was established. of Rikkyo University’s famous ivy- brought most of their instruments all brought them to covered chapel. the way from Tokyo. Shanghai finally on Bishop Williams June 28, 1856,” writes The Main Building is the symbol of Rikkyo School. The school resigned from his office “We are with the Bishop every day “The Bishop C.M. Williams Hisakazu Kaneko in “A has the largest high school gym and pool in all of Tokyo. in 1889, feeling he was in our school life and he is still able Memorial Service in Story of Channing Moore Williams, too old to continue his to teach us,” concluded Chaplain Commemoration of Rikkyo School’s The Bishop of Yedo.” He also taught English and other work. He continued Ichihara at the service. 140th Foundation Service” began as subjects to local students. During to serve his adopted the youthful band played “God of Their difficult journey had only this time, he taught math to countrymen as an For much of the historical Our Fathers,” the Bishop’s favorite just begun, however. After learning Shigenoby Okuma, who would one ordinary priest in Osaka information in this article, we are hymn. Shintaro Ichihara, the school’s Chinese, and being ordained in 1857, day become the Prime Minister of and then Kyoto, where indebted to Hisakazu Kaneko’s fine chaplain, presided over the service, Williams began preaching. He and Japan. Left to Right: Jun Itoigawa, Chairman, Board of Directors; he would spend the rest publication, “A Story of Channing Moore Williams, The Bishop of Yedo” conducted in both Japanese and Liggins were often persecuted for Shintaro Ichihara, Chaplain; and David Charlton, President of his days in Japan. (originally published by St. Paul’s English. During the service, those their beliefs—even being flogged In 1866, following the death of of Church Schools in the Diocese of Virginia in attendance learned more about and stoned by the crowds that Bishop Boone, the Church elected His health continued to University in 1964, and revised and the unusual story of the American gathered. Williams to the office of Bishop of deteriorate, however. republished by his widow, Mrs. C. Episcopal bishop who has inspired Williams led a morning service every On April 30, 1908, he boarded the Hisako Kaneko, in 2004). (continued on page 7) day at the school, in Japanese. He S.S. Siberia, bound for the U.S. for

FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 6 FALL 2014 FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 7 FALL 2014 “Teach the way, not the self...” China and Japan. He briefly returned also taught Bible studies and English a final time. He settled in the home to the U.S., where his consecration classes. He resided in one of the of a niece who lived in Richmond. took place in St. John’s Chapel in rooms of the school, and lived a He lived there for two years before Japanese Students, Dignitaries Honor Educator and New York on October 3, 1866. simple and modest life. According passing away on December 1, 1910. to Kaneko, he wore a threadbare suit According to Kaneko, “it is reported Missionary Bishop C.M. Williams in Special Service He then moved to Woochong, China, that had been turned inside out and that before he died he was mumbling curious scene took place at generations of young Japanese At the request of the American to tend to his congregation there “but always traveled third class, “because, in Japanese to the perplexed nurses.” the grave site of Bishop C.M. students. Episcopal Church, the two men set he could not forget the country he he said, there was no fourth.” He AWilliams on the morning of March up a mission station in Nagasaki in had left behind,” writes Kaneko. “Seeds now a Tree” 27th. A chartered bus pulled up and Channing Moore Williams was July 1859, and in so doing, became He returned to Japan, this time a lively crowd of about 40 middle born in Richmond on July 18, 1829. the first Protestant missionaries in settling in Osaka. “Some of the seeds he and high school aged boys and their His father, a farmer, died when Japan. At the time, Christians were (Bishop Williams) planted chaperones emerged. They brought Williams was young. His widowed associated with black magic, and His timing proved fortuitous. In have been growing and now out instruments of all sizes and set mother worked tirelessly to support missionary activities were prohibited 1873, the Japanese government it is a big tree,” said Jun up chairs to face the Bishop’s grave. her children. Little is known of his in the country. Williams wrote ordered the removal of public Itoigawa, Chairman of the The boys, who were members of childhood, but at age 20, he began about the difficult environment to notice boards that displayed an Board of Directors of the their school’s wind orchestra, were studying at the College of William the Mission Board in 1861. “There Edict Against Christianity, that Rikkyo School, speaking and Mary, graduating in 1853. He is no immediate prospect of being had been in place for over 200 at the memorial service in then attended Virginia Theological permitted to engage in active years. Richmond. Seminary in Alexandria, from which missionary duties. Our wisdom he graduated in 1855. He served as is to sit still for the present,” he A School Established (1874) Today, the Rikkyo School a deacon in Alexandria’s St. Paul’s says in the letter. Nonetheless, in (also known as St. Paul’s) In the more tolerant environment, Forty middle and high school age boys – all members of includes the Rikkyo primary, Church. 1862, he directed the building of Rikkyo School’s Wind Orchestra perform at the ceremony. a small church in Nagasaki—the he moved the mission’s middle and high schools as To China and A New Life (1855) first Protestant church in Japan-- headquarters from Osaka to the well as Rikkyo University, which offered services for foreign new capital, Toyko (formerly Yedo) quickly and quietly gave money to one of the most prominent private Later that year, his life took a residents. in 1873. He then established, in beggars in the street, so as to not liberal arts and research institutions dramatic turn. In February 1874, a small, private attract attention to himself. “Teach in Japan, which serves over 20,000 November 1855, under school in Tsukiji, Tokyo where the way, not the self,” became a undergraduate and graduate students. the direction of Bishop English classes and Bible studies phrase that many connected to him. The schools and the university have William Boone, the first were taught. This institution, which campuses in both Ikebukuro and Anglican missionary eventually became known as the Under his guidance, the American Niiza. Young Bishop Williams. It is said to be the bishop of Shanghai, Rikkyo School, began with five mission in Japan expanded its only photograph taken while he was in Japan. he sailed from New students. He later expanded the brick and mortar efforts, including Since their beginning 140 years dressed neatly, in matching jackets York with the Rev. campus to include a university a number of schools as well as a ago, the schools have remained emblazoned with the crest of the John Liggins, bound (1883) and junior high (1896). medical dispensary (1885) that committed to the Christian values Rikkyo School in Japan. Bishop for missionary work grew into St. Luke’s International of Bishop Williams—although, of Williams, a Richmond native, had in China. “A perilous, Hospital. In 1887, the course, the students come from a started the school over 140 years ago seven months’ voyage, Nippon Selkokai (the variety of religious backgrounds. and they were preparing to honor broken only at Rio de Episcopal Church in His statue resides in a side garden him with a special service. They’d Janeiro and Sydney, Japan) was established. of Rikkyo University’s famous ivy- brought most of their instruments all brought them to covered chapel. the way from Tokyo. Shanghai finally on Bishop Williams June 28, 1856,” writes The Main Building is the symbol of Rikkyo School. The school resigned from his office “We are with the Bishop every day “The Bishop C.M. Williams Hisakazu Kaneko in “A has the largest high school gym and pool in all of Tokyo. in 1889, feeling he was in our school life and he is still able Memorial Service in Story of Channing Moore Williams, too old to continue his to teach us,” concluded Chaplain Commemoration of Rikkyo School’s The Bishop of Yedo.” He also taught English and other work. He continued Ichihara at the service. 140th Foundation Service” began as subjects to local students. During to serve his adopted the youthful band played “God of Their difficult journey had only this time, he taught math to countrymen as an For much of the historical Our Fathers,” the Bishop’s favorite just begun, however. After learning Shigenoby Okuma, who would one ordinary priest in Osaka information in this article, we are hymn. Shintaro Ichihara, the school’s Chinese, and being ordained in 1857, day become the Prime Minister of and then Kyoto, where indebted to Hisakazu Kaneko’s fine chaplain, presided over the service, Williams began preaching. He and Japan. Left to Right: Jun Itoigawa, Chairman, Board of Directors; he would spend the rest publication, “A Story of Channing Moore Williams, The Bishop of Yedo” conducted in both Japanese and Liggins were often persecuted for Shintaro Ichihara, Chaplain; and David Charlton, President of his days in Japan. (originally published by St. Paul’s English. During the service, those their beliefs—even being flogged In 1866, following the death of of Church Schools in the Diocese of Virginia in attendance learned more about and stoned by the crowds that Bishop Boone, the Church elected His health continued to University in 1964, and revised and the unusual story of the American gathered. Williams to the office of Bishop of deteriorate, however. republished by his widow, Mrs. C. Episcopal bishop who has inspired Williams led a morning service every On April 30, 1908, he boarded the Hisako Kaneko, in 2004). (continued on page 7) day at the school, in Japanese. He S.S. Siberia, bound for the U.S. for

FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 6 FALL 2014 FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 7 FALL 2014 Carol and Bertram Hayes-Davis Before What’s in a Name? Often isolated in his task, Beauchamp has never seen a ghost in Hollywood Cemetery, but he has An Interview with the Hayes-Davis Family gotten a good scare. n November 7, Bertram Hayes-Davis, a great-great Q: And he was how old? “I had my welding shield on and was working Ograndson of Jefferson Davis visited Hollywood on a gate. You can’t hear anything and the only Cemetery with his wife, Carol. The pair had traveled to BHD: Six. thing you can see is the arc from the light. All of a Richmond from their home in Biloxi, Mississippi for a sudden, someone grabbed me on the shoulder and United Daughters of the Confederacy speaking engagement. CHD: So they ask a six-year-old, “Would you change your said, ‘hello,’” he says, with a laugh. name?” Of course he says, “Sure.” In Biloxi, they have been active in preservation efforts for The visitor turned out to be a friendly member of Beauvoir, the Confederate President’s historic home and BHD: So they go to the state legislature, and the state of the cemetery’s grounds committee. presidential library, which they hope one day will be viewed Mississippi changes his name from Jefferson Addison Hayes to as a “Monticello of the South.” Hayes-Davis, president of Jefferson Hayes-Davis. And that was on his birth certificate. A history buff, Beauchamp is very knowledgeable Section D, Lot #159 the Beauvoir Foundation, also served as executive director of about the prominent individuals buried in the After the home until his resignation last March; Mrs. Hayes-Davis The other half of the story is that in 1976, we have a cemetery. “There’s an old gentleman over here previously handled programs and events for the stately manor. Jefferson Davis family reunion and I’m standing in the glade whose plantation was across the creek where Since 1976, he has also served as president of the Davis Family at Rosemont (Plantation in Mississippi; a former home of I grew up--Henry Wise. The only governor of Association, which has about 1,700 members. The non- Jefferson Davis where the family meets every two years), and Virginia that I know of from the Eastern Shore,” he profit organizes the annual family reunion and also sponsors we’ve decided to create a Davis family association and make says. scholarships, research and grants, historic trips and speakers. it a non-profit. Of course to do that, you have to have a board of officers. (They go through the slate) and we get to president. Every January 1st, he takes an inventory of the At Hollywood, the couple visited the family plot in Davis And I’m standing next to my cousin, and his father is across the fencing in the cemetery, checking past work and Circle, where Jefferson Davis is buried along with his wife, glade looking at us, and he said, “There is only one person who making plans for the future. Varina, and his daughters, Winnie and Margaret, and other should be president of the Davis family association.” And he family members. Afterwards, the Hayes-Davises stopped points, and I’m thinking he’s pointing at his son. And he says, “In my lifetime, I’d prefer not to see the cemetery by Hollywood Cemetery offices, where they talked about “Bertram Hayes-Davis.” get back into the shape it was when I first started,” Beauvoir, interesting family traditions, and the unusual story he says, “because there’s too much history there to behind their last name. Of all the Jefferson Davis descendants, And so I’m remembering my great-grandfather in the room lose.” Hayes-Davis is the only one, other than his children, who that day recalling what changed his life, and at that moment carries the last name “Davis.” His great-grandmother Margaret, what changed my life. Because I became the person who had who married a Hayes, was the only child of Jefferson and no idea who Jefferson Davis was, other than he was president Before After Varina Davis to bear children. of the Confederate States of America, making me want to be as knowledgeable about that as I could. You look at the way Q: Tell me about how your great-grandmother Margaret God acts in your life and here are these two instances and they carried on the Davis name. directly parallel.

FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 8 FALL 2014 FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 5 FALL 2014 Restoring History Q: Tell me about your need to tell Jefferson Davis’ story. What do you think hasn’t been told in the past? Dedicated Craftsman Chris Beauchamp Repairs BHD: We speak a lot about the one line in history book: Hollywood’s Ornate Iron Work “Jefferson Davis is appointed President of the Confederate States of America.” (When the couple speaks to groups, he hen Chris Beauchamp arrived in 2007, Hollywood the older sections, where some of the fencing is over says, they also point out that Davis was also a senator and WCemetery was still trying to dig out from the damage 150 years old. In the cemetery’s early days, each family congressman) He was the Secretary of War and without his of Hurricane Isabel. plot came with a wrought or cast iron fence surrounding leadership we wouldn’t have the Capitol building today. it. A significant amount of fencing was donated in iron We talk about the transcontinental railroad and the Gadsden “A lot of the fencing was dilapidated and falling down or bent collections during the Civil War and World War I. Purchase. We talk about his service in the Army, the War by tree limbs,” he recalls. Additionally, due to wear and tear of 1847, and the Black Hawk War. And then we talk about over the years, much of the fencing was buried in the ground or He has worked on countless individual plots as well afterwards, his imprisonment, and being a man without a missing sections. as larger efforts, such as Presidents Circle, and various country and losing four out of six kids. connected plots in section M, one of the older, “alphabet” sections. The section includes a large monument to Dr. CHD: He became the martyr of the war. Lee got away, all R.W. “John” Dove, who served as the Grand Secretary of these others got away, but he became the symbol. … The the Grand Lodge of Virginia for over 30 years. main thing is we are trying to get across is to educate people about what Jefferson Davis did for this country. The job “involved a good 300 yards of fencing, and there was a lot of it missing,” he says. The posts in the section BHD: His 52 years of being a patriot have been eliminated. feature an ornate, winding rose design and a cannonball People believe he was always just that one person … So, finial with a fleur-de-lis design atop. Since there were not history has gotten lost. And we think Jefferson Davis is as enough of the original finials, he reserved those for the important a historic figure as anyone else you want to name. gateways and topped the remaining posts with cannonball finials. When he has to create a new post or finial, he uses Q: What are your feelings about Hollywood Cemetery? Though his funeral and burial took place in New Orleans, Jefferson cast iron. What are your impressions about it? Chris Beauchamp (middle) with two members of his Art-a-Metal crew. Davis was reinterred in Hollywood Cemetery at his widow’s request Fortunately, Beauchamp (pronounced Beech-am) enjoys “Whatever we put back, we’re trying to stay as close to in 1893. The life-size bronze statue of him erected in the family plot BHD: It’s an amazing monument to history. We’re a very on Davis Circle was selected from three designs. “There was a big a challenge. After learning welding while serving in the original as possible. Sometimes we get lucky and we’ll small part of the history that’s here. battle about the hat,” says Bertram Hayes-Davis standing next to his the U.S. Coast Guard, and apprenticing with a Newport find some here and there. And when we get that chance, wife, Carol. “I think there’s only one picture of him with a hat on.” News Shipbuilding contractor, he created railings, spiral we’ll try to buy them up. If we can’t do that … we’ll go CHD: On the way in, we were talking about how hard it staircases, and other ornamental designs for Associated out and have a mold made and have that particular cast must be for some of these cemeteries to carry on ... But Steel Products in Charlottesville. He opened his own shop, iron piece recast,” he says. Finial molds cost $1,600, he this place has so much historical significance. And it is Art-a-Metal, in the Eastern Shore’s Accomack County in says. absolutely gorgeous. You’ve got the river and you’ve got HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY 1997. His background prepared him for the intricate work so many things that make it a special place. … Every time needed for the antique posts and finials at Hollywood, Hollywood Cemetery Grounds Foreman, Donald Toney, we come here there is always someone in Davis Circle. during hollywood’s long history, the cemetery where he and his crew put in about 40 man hours a week, also helps Beauchamp scout for missing pieces. “Chris Many times, when the weather is beautiful, they’re painting. has relied largely on “word of mouth” from its when the weather cooperates. believes in what he’s doing, he loves it, and when you find They’ve got their easels out there. lot owners for the sale of lots. in recent years, someone like that, you’re very fortunate,” Toney says. the cemetery has developed projects designed “Chris does a very thorough job in dealing with the BHD: And this place is not mournful. It’s historic. It’s a to increase the inventory of lots, crypts, and restoration of the iron work at Hollywood Cemetery. It The other members of the Art-a-Metal team are Larry learning experience. niches available for sale. please continue the is very tedious work at times and sometimes involves Gibson from Charlottesville, Greg Giles from Madison “word of mouth” tradition with your family and re-grading the landscape or removing vegetation to County, and Marvin Bundick from the Eastern Shore. friends. accomplish this work. It is difficult to find craftsmen In December, the Hayes-Davises will be leading a historic shown by appointment who can do the restoration work on wrought and cast With larger projects, Beauchamp will break down the steamboat trip down the Mississippi River that chronicles 648-8501 iron,” says David Gilliam, Hollywood Cemetery General fencing into its various sections and bring it back to the the life of Jefferson Davis. Proceeds from the trip will www.hollywoodcemetery.org Manager. shop to repair. Because of the weight of antique iron, he benefit the Beauvoir Foundation. For information on this likes to weld the pieces on-site when possible. trip and others, please visit BeauvoirFoundation.org Beauchamp’s projects have included countless repairs (continued on page 5) throughout the cemetery, with many of the projects in

FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 4 FALL 2014 FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 9 SPRINGFALL 20142011 Remembering Our Children Irish American Society Commemorates Mary Ryan Special Ceremony Held Each Year At Angel Statue and Other Victims of Brown’s Island Explosion n the Idlewood section of Hollywood Cemetery, a large happened across this thing called the ‘Angel of Hope.’ It Ibronze angel statue of a child stands atop a pedestal. piqued my interest.” n March 29, members of the Irish American Society ignited the materials in the room and led to a second and larger The angel is looking heavenward as she reaches toward Oof Greater Richmond dedicated a historic marker explosion. the viewer with her palms gently turned up. Her hair, He learned that many communities across the country remembering the victims of a tragic explosion that took gown and feathered wings flow in the wind. Carefully had erected identical bronze angels in their cemeteries to place on March 13, 1863 during the Civil War on Brown’s At the ceremony, the Society unveiled the marker, engraved etched under one wing is the word, “Hope.” For years, memorialize lost children and create a place for collective Island. Fifty people lost their lives in the accident at the with a Celtic cross and the message: “In Memory of Mary the statue has brought just that to the families who gather healing. The memorials—also known as “Christmas Box” Confederate munitions factory, including many young Irish Ryan and the 14 other victims of the March 13, 1863 explosion there each December for a special ceremony. It all started angel statues--were inspired by the best-selling novel of that girls who worked there. The delicate and dangerous work on Brown’s Island, who are laid to rest here in Hollywood with the efforts of a grieving father. same name by Utah writer Richard Paul Evans. In the book, often required small hands. Cemetery.” The names and ages of the victims—the youngest a woman mourns her child at the foot of an angel monument. just ten-years-old—are engraved on the marker. Evans was inspired by an actual statue that is believed to have perished in a flood. A lot of people started calling the About six or seven victims are believed to be buried at the author, asking about the statue. “They had this connection location of the monument, says Karon Bell, a board member [to it],” says Johnson. of the Irish American Society who helped raise funds for the project. Many of the victims of the tragedy lay in unmarked Evans commissioned a new angel statue, modeled after the graves in cemeteries throughout the city. “You had a lot of very one described in his book. A dedication ceremony took place poor people at the time; some of them may have been buried in at the Salt Lake City Cemetery on December 6th, 1994. friends of family plots,” she says. Evans allowed replicas of the 4’3” tall statue to be made available to others, at no profit.

FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 10 FALL 2014 FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 3 FALL 2014 “We can share our stories of (continued from page 1) Grant our children. It’s a nice open Talley Joins Friends Board The Foundation Trustees are sensitive to awarding grants sections cast. Today, the fence, almost three hundred feet atmosphere …Everyone there has to organizations and for causes that might have special in length, awaits installation. been through it,” he says. Friends of Hollywood is pleased to announce the election of Elizabeth Wilkins Talley to its Board of Directors. meaning to the Robins family. From animal welfare and the elimination of cancer, the list includes the The Glade is located to the right of the earthen bridge Families visit the statue year round, often leaving stuffed animals and Liz is a native of Winchester, Virginia. She is a graduate of the environment, arts and culture, special needs education, roadway as one enters the cemetery. Historically referred Madeira School and Sweetbriar College where she earned a outreach to the handicapped or disadvantaged, and to as “short bottom,” it was one of the Cemetery’s very other mementos. One local couple Bachelor’s degree in Economics in 1988. From 1989 to 1993, she conservation and preservation. special water features. Along with “long bottom” on the visits the site regularly because it worked in the Trusts and Estates Department of Sotheby’s, Inc. in New York City. left, it was drained in the mid 1900’s when maintenance offers her a convenient location to During her tenure in New York, she also completed a graduate certificate program at “When Rita Smith last visited Hollywood, there was much and insects became an issue. Friends have engaged remember their son, who is buried in the Parsons School of Design with a concentration in the History of Decorative Arts. to share with her,” Kelly Wilbanks, Friends Executive a Virginia landscape architect to provide plans to re- West Virginia. Often, people will ask Director, recalls. “She seemed particularly fascinated landscape and beautify the Glade. In addition to serving Johnson if they can visit the statue— Liz brings to Friends a keen interest in and enthusiasm for Hollywood conservation with Presidents Circle and the re-design that has occured as prominent entrance feature for the cemetery, the Glade even if their children were already and restoration as well as community outreach activities. She serves currently as will become a scattering garden for cremated remains. grown up when they passed away. President of the James River Garden Club where she has demonstrated her passion for gardening and horticulture. Past board service includes the Museum of the “A child is a child,” he says. “The Confederacy (now, the American Civil War Museum), the Sheltering Arms Hospital Friends of Hollywood wishes to express its deepest Junior Board (Past President), Historic Richmond Foundation, the William Byrd appreciation to Rita Smith and other Foundation Trustees memorial is there for anyone who has lost a child, regardless of age.” Branch of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities and Belle Grove for their special interest in Hollywood Cemetery, for Plantation. their spectacular philanthropy over many years, and for their generous support of Friends of Hollywood. The The Children’s Remembrance Liz is married to William St. Clair Talley, a Richmond architect. The Talley’s have Foundation’s generosity will allow the organization Candlelight Ceremony will be two sons. to continue meaningful efforts to preserve one of held at the Angel of Hope statue Richmond’s most outstanding landmarks. on December 6th at 6 p.m. It is We welcome Liz to the Board of Friends where she will most certainly make a free and open to the public. tremendous contribution. Introducing our new Website

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